Photos this week: March 20-27, 2025

Photos this week: March 20-27, 2025

Top US intelligence officials were grilled by lawmakers Wednesday, two days after a report in The Atlantic revealed that members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet used the messaging app Signal to discuss detailed operational plans about its mid-March military strikes against Houthi militants in Yemen. According to The Atlantic, national security adviser Mike Waltz convened…

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Trump order on Smithsonian targets programs with 'improper ideology'

Trump order on Smithsonian targets programs with ‘improper ideology’

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump revealed his intentions to reshape the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order Thursday that targets funding to programs with “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.” Trump said there has been a “concerted and widespread” effort over the past decade to rewrite American history by replacing “objective facts” with a “distorted…

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Trump has not asked Waltz to resign, but the Signal chat issue is "still a hot potato," one official said

Trump has not asked Waltz to resign, but the Signal chat issue is “still a hot potato,” one official said

Washington — National security adviser Mike Waltz and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have so far survived the disclosure that they ran a high-level meeting on a military operation via a non-government app and inadvertently included a journalist.  But President Trump continues to privately vent his irritation about it and is closely monitoring the news to…

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